Gary Alexander Azerier Books

Science-Fiction stories comprise tales which contemporary science would deem beyond possibility. The stories speculate “what if”.... What if a fleet of spaceships looking for a new world break loose of its home galaxy and attain unheard of speeds beyond the cosmic limits? What happens to a man’s mind when a lone astronaut finds himself stranded on a farthest imaginable alien planet? What adventure awaits a young boy who can access a train which travels to stellar constellations? But science-fiction travels beyond space. It can present a situation in which a grown man returns to his childhood home, long gone, and visits himself- as a child. It can look in on time travelers who miscalculate their journeys and find themselves on different and irreconcilable time coordinates...presenting themselves with insurmountable options.

"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile", flavored the morning with the 75 year old plus lyric. The world was at war as WOR's John Gambling and his boys (in the band) tried to broadcast a cheery note to listeners starting their day. Newsman Prescott Robinson offered war news, and kids off to school would soon pledge allegiance to the flag, wear white shirts and red ties on assembly day, as some deserving fifth and sixth graders would pin on triple A badges as they manned their posts along stairwells and exits.

4313 tells of a young man's colorful initiation into the United States Marine Corps, his discovery of Radio, and his journey into and through that selective and often veiled world. The book tells, not without irony and wit, of Quantico, Parris Island and Camp Lejeune as the story moves into the sphere of more than a dozen radio stations from North Carolina to New York City. It is a revealing tale of two worlds beyond whose portals few ever get to see.